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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Sirius Pain: Running Up That Hill

I used to be really fit. 17% body fat is really fit in my book. I ran 5 miles several times a week. I taught aerobics 2 - 4 times a week. I lifted weights (remember Nautilus clubs?) I went out dancing even. We call that "the good old days."

Today? I'm thin. But thin is not fit.And I'm Italian, so pendulous arms are my birthright. As is a dyed black cotton candy style pile of hair on my head and a housecoat. So I'm back to exercising. What set me off? A few things. 1) I feel fat. 2) I look fattish (naked.) 3) I can not afford new clothes. 4) I need to stay stronger than my kids, which isn't easy. Mia is really strong! 5) I don't want to have to wear Teez-her t-shirts with girdles built in (see post a few days ago about that mistake.)

I've been walking with my Sirius Stiletto on my head. I listen to Howard Stern mostly. But today he had on two porn stars and frankly, when I was eighteen I was cramming for an economics final at Tufts while they were cramming wonkaloids into their rectora. Not my cup of kaopectate, you know?

So I switched onto music. Music makes me stop walking and start running. Except my route takes me up a big old hill. I managed some of it up, some of it down.

Mark are going to see Bruce in Mansfield, MA next month. YAY! It's our first splurge in a long time. My folks live minutes from the Comcast Center (formerly known as Great Woods) so we don't have to pay a sitter. Double Yay! And we won't have a long drive home from the City like when we go to Madison Square Garden (an hour at 1:00am is a long trip!)

I feel less fat for the moment. But Mark has literally a dozen boxes of yummy cookies in the fridge - he reps a line of gourmet cookies Too Good Gourmet and they are calling me.

2 comments:

Currently my wife and I are doing a 21 day diet and cleansing program. We're video-blogging our experience daily and talking about how we feel as we progress along, what we're eating, how we're exercising, etc.

I started working out about a year ago - weight training mostly. But did not start watching what I eat - b/c hey, I'm exercising, I'm working, I'm baking/cooking GFCF, I'm researching, I'm drawing social stories - how much more can a gal take! This spring I stopped eating as much - started getting up at 5 to do an extra couple days of cardio. And the dial is headed down on the scale. I'm already stronger from a year of weight work with a trainer - this will hopefully get the fat off so the muscle can show --- b/c as you said the boy is getting stronger and I have to live forever to take care of him.